Good to see the Old Grocery Store repurposed
The staff said you could not rent a scooter without a NZ driver license. But the next day she rent the scooter to a young university student from overseas. She did not want to tell me anything about walking tracks around that island. And she just said go to DOC
Very helpful and knowledgeable staff
You suck I mean really suck you trued to blame the scrates on the car on us and hello it was not us you are thriving people just because if we break a head light we have to pay five hundred dollors and you are not even an I site you lied to every body and you are just shocking you are little beaches and my reveiw is not fair its poor
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Don't be misled, unless you are not really wanting to find out about what is on offer. This business calls itself Red Shed, painted red, and Oban (the name of the town in Stewarts Island) Visitor Centre. In reality it is the booking office of the ferry company, not an independent visitor centre. The ferry company seems to have the location to entice you to what they call the visitor centre. There are no i-sites, which is confusing, on the Island, it seems that some businesses need to do their own bookings to get a chance to survive. If you go to the Red Shed, they will offer you ferry company tours first and you don't get to hear about other options. They also offer a bus tour that carefully picks out businesses they want you to know about. Check out other options so you get the best choices.
Found out that this was not a real visitor centre, but ferry booking office - too late we booked ferry company tour without knowing there were others. We travelled on the ferry also.